January 21, 1860

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Features

The Process of Beer-Making--Mechanical, Chemical and Microscopic

Our Correspondence - January 21, 1860

Patent Extension Cases

Coal Tar for Trees

The Winans Steamship

Chinese Sugar Cane as Cattle Feed

The Decimal System of Weights and Measures

Combination Lamp and Match Box

American Timber for Shipbuilding

The Evils of Trades' Strikes

Latest Discoveries in Africa

The Way the Temperature of our Bodies is Regulated

Some Statistics of Tobacco

A Column of Varieties

Boiler Incrustations

"Are You Insured?"

Lightning Accidents in 1859

New Vibrating Harrow

Underhill's Leaf Beehive

A Law that Cannot be Executed--Congressional Blindness about Patent Matters--Reforms Wanted

Engineering Precedents

Frictional Gearing

Weekly Summary of Inventions - January 21, 1860

Fall of a Factory--Sad Affair

New York Markets

Foreign News and Markets - January 21, 1860

Patent Claims - January 21, 1860

Hints to our Readers

Gordon's Watch Regulator

Bryant's Improved Journal-Box

Departments

Departments

Notes and Queries - January 21, 1860

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